Scripts, fiction, poetry
Writing Portfolio
YouTube documentary scripts, fiction, poetry, excerpts, and new writing samples as they are prepared.
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Benjamin McInnes
Writer, web designer, game designer, and animator.
A multidisciplinary creative working across YouTube documentary scripts, fiction, web design, original games, and comedy-drama animation.
Selected paths
Featured work
Writing sits at the centre, connected to original game worlds, animated storytelling, and client-facing web design.
Disciplines
Four connected practices
Each discipline has its own craft, but they share a focus on story, pacing, atmosphere, clarity, and audience experience.
Writing
YouTube documentary scripts, fiction, poetry, excerpts, and story-driven writing with attention to pace and voice.
Web Design
Modern websites through BetterSite, built around clarity, conversion, responsive design, and polished presentation.
Game Design
Original game concepts ranging from social forest worlds for kids to psychological mystery and horror.
Animation
Comedy-drama animation, character, rhythm, timing, direction, and visual storytelling.
Writing Portfolio
Scripts, fiction, poetry, and narrative samples.
Benjamin writes for digital audiences and story-led projects, including YouTube documentary scripts, video essays, fiction, poetry, and excerpts from longer narrative work.
Poetry
A dedicated area for selected poems once the new portfolio pieces are ready to publish.
Selected writing
In progress
Poetry
A dedicated space for new poems and selected lyric work once Benjamin has chosen the pieces for this version of the portfolio.
Samples being prepared
Short Stories
Commissioned fiction and original short stories, with public samples added as they are selected.
Fiction
Selected
Commissioned Short Fiction
Client-directed fiction work shaped around brief, tone, character, and narrative payoff.
Client work
Short fiction
In progress
Original Short Stories
Original stories will be added here as new samples are revised and prepared for the public portfolio.
Samples being prepared
Excerpts
Longer fiction, screenwriting, and narrative fragments can live here without crowding the main portfolio.
Long-form prose
In progress
Long-Form Fiction Excerpts
A future home for excerpted work from longer fiction, including darker, character-led, or psychologically charged prose.
New excerpts coming
Excerpt
In progress
Screenwriting and Narrative Samples
Selected scenes, outlines, or narrative fragments can live here when Benjamin is ready to share them publicly.
Samples being prepared
YouTube Scripts
A distinct professional section for documentary scripts, video essays, explainers, branded scripts, and narrative YouTube work.
YouTube script
Ongoing
YouTube Documentary Scripts
Long-form documentary and video essay scripts built around research, structure, pacing, hooks, narration, and viewer retention.
Writing service
Scriptwriting
Ongoing
Explainer and Branded Scripts
Clear, audience-aware scripts for explainers, brand videos, educational content, and story-led digital campaigns.
Writing service
YouTube narrative
Ongoing
Narrative Channel Scripts
Script work for channels that need a stronger voice, sharper opening, cleaner structure, and more deliberate emotional rhythm.
Writing service
Creative Work
Original games, animation, and web design work.
Benjamin's non-writing work moves between original game concepts, comedy-drama animation, and polished websites through BetterSite.
Game Design
Original games in development, from playful online worlds to atmospheric mystery and horror.
Game Design
In development
Forestria
A kids game in development set in a forest world of animal characters, mini games, acorns, clothing, houses, and collectible ways to make the world feel personal.
Creator, game designer, writer
Game Design
In development
Don't Walk Through Snow in the Mountains
A psychological horror cop mystery game in development, built around investigation, atmosphere, dread, and the feeling that something in the mountains is wrong.
Creator, game designer, writer
Animation
Comedy-drama animation work with a focus on writing, direction, performance, and timing.
Comedy-drama animation
In development
Everything Is Beautiful
An animation project blending comedy and drama, with Benjamin leading the writing, direction, and animation.
Writer, director, lead animator
Web Design
Client-facing web design work and services through BetterSite.
About
A writer and digital creator working across story, design, games, and animation.
Benjamin McInnes is a Christchurch-based writer, web designer, game designer, and animator with a practice spanning scripts, fiction, websites, original games, and animated comedy-drama.
Benjamin writes for story, clarity, and momentum, then carries that same instinct into websites, games, and animation.
His writing work includes YouTube documentary scripts, video essay structures, fiction, web content, product copy, and interviews. He is also building a more personal body of creative work through original games and animation.
Current projects include Forestria, a kids game set in a forest world of animal characters and mini games; Don't Walk Through Snow in the Mountains, a psychological horror cop mystery game; and Everything Is Beautiful, a comedy-drama animation Benjamin is writing, directing, and lead animating.
For web design, Benjamin works through BetterSite, creating modern responsive sites with a focus on clear messaging, strong structure, and polished presentation.
Contact
For scripts, websites, creative work, games, or animation.
Reach out for YouTube scripts, writing work, web design, game and animation projects, or multidisciplinary creative collaborations.
Benjamin is available for writing, script development, web design, and selected creative projects.
The quickest starting points are email, Instagram, Upwork, or BetterSite for web design enquiries.